In April 2015, community leaders and teachers from Greater Manchester travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina on our ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ programme of educational visits to witness at
Community leaders and teachers from across Manchester have vowed to take action in their communities to tackle hatred and intolerance after returning from a powerful and moving visit to Srebrenica.
Greater Manchester’s Police and Crime Commissioner is visiting Srebrenica – some 15 years after he accompanied the first two refugees who returned to their home following the 1995 genocide.
The name Srebrenica has become synonymous with those dark days in July 1995 when, in the first ever United Nations declared safe area, thousands of men and boys were systematically murdered and buried in mass graves.
